Heat Death of the Internet - takahē
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You want to order from a local restaurant, but you need to download a third-party delivery app, even though you plan to pick it up yourself. The prices and menu on the app are different to what you saw in the window. When you download a second app the prices are different again. You ring
  • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    78·
    4 months ago

    You want to watch the trailer for an upcoming movie on YouTube but you first have to sit through an ad.

    Its pretty bad when you have to watch ads so you can watch the ad you wanted to see.

  • Capt. Wolf@lemmy.worldEnglish
    561·
    4 months ago

    Who uses Adblock??? They’re a bullshit, sellout company.

    You install Ublock Origin instead and add the annoyance and adblock-blocking lists…

    There… Now you don’t need to watch ads to watch your ads. Your news and recipe sites no longer have an ad every other sentence. A couple pages still refuse to load because you have an ad blocker. You learn to live without them. Your Google searches have sponsored sites filtered out.

    You tell your mother that you can’t read that article and it’s not being represented on any other news platform, and suggest it’s possibly not all that reputable. She tells you she got it from Facebook. You tell her to stop getting all her news from Facebook. You realize maybe social media is a symptom of a sick society too involved in each other’s daily doings. You delete your social media accounts and block the pages.

    You decide you want to read that book from the Wikipedia page your friend recommended. You open up Libby to see if your local library has a copy of the book. They don’t, but they have digital copies of several other books by the same author. You make a note to check them out later, as they’re not about the topic you were looking for. You search Google for the book title followed by .epub download and find several sites that have the book your looking for. You put it on your tablet, then put on your shoes, and go out to the park to read your new book. While you’re walking, your coworker texts you to complain that your supervisor fired him for plagiarizing work off ChatGPT again. He doesn’t understand how they could tell.

    You get to the park, sit, and enjoy your book for a while.

    • terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      10·
      4 months ago

      Sponsor Block is great too, specifically for YouTube. I’d say about ~90% of the creators own plugs are auto skipped. Pretty sure you can whitelist specific channels.

  • Gordito@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    4 months ago

    I have experienced every single one of those situations. Such a frustrating but accurate article.

  • Tregetour@lemdro.idEnglish
    91·
    3 months ago

    Always cut out the intermediaries.

    (I’m glad this story was published. We may roll our eyes, but it’s a contribution toward raising normie’s consciousness, which is welcome.)

    • mPony@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      Always cut out the intermediaries.

      In this vein: when you can, PAY CASH. Normalizing credit and debit transactions also normalized bleeding money from businesses to VISA, Mastercard, and whatever monster you bank with. They all suck. :) Businesses pay more for credit transactions than debit transactions, so use debit if the business doesn’t take cash.

  • mesamune@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    4 months ago

    It feels like youtube especially is much worse. The app bit has happened to me before. No one updates the app/website and wrong info just gets piled on.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    Not sure what the restaurant app thing has to do with the death of the internet. It’s shitty, sure; but does not affect the internet as a whole. It’ll be the death of the restaurant, when people finally get fed up with that shit.

    Everything else is just the corpo owned internet. And who cares if that dies? It’s always been shit. It’s just shit in a different way now.

    • Feathercrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      4 months ago

      “There are workarounds to these problems” doesn’t disprove “there are problems”. In fact, it only proves it more.

    • TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org
      183·
      4 months ago

      Now tell us what those of us with lives, the need to interact with the rest of the planet, and better things to do than most of that bullshit can do. I run Linux and ad blockers. That’s the most I’m going to do. I’m not going to become a hermit and live in a bunker.

    • fernlike3923@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      8·
      3 months ago

      Blaming the user and saying there are alternatives really doesn’t work.

      If you don’t stand up against Pixel phones getting enshittified, then Fairphones are also going to get enshittified. If you don’t stand up against U.S. airports getting spying facial recognition, then U.K. airports are also going to get spying facial recognition because they now know that nobody will give a shit.

      Now Firefox is also getting enshittified, because just look at the most popular web browser. Google Chrome is literal spyware and they get no actual pushback, and are instead getting rewarded so Firefox copies it.

      So, for example, instead of saying “Stop moaning about Netflix and torrent your movies even though you might get arrested if you don’t have good opsec in countries with strict copyright laws.”, push back against those changes. Boycotting works, telling your friends and family how Netflix is fucking them over without putting the blame on them works, even a Mastodon post works. But a half-assed response to an obscure article that blames the user doesn’t work.

    • Tregetour@lemdro.idEnglish
      71·
      3 months ago

      All problems are user’s own. Yes enshittification sucks. You’re free to disconnect as much as you can.

      Wrong attitude. Only atomization and further exploitation lies that way. The solution is to get vocal and demand higher standards.

    • Meltrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      Wait, is rarbg back? It was taken down a while back, did someone actually resurrect it?